The TikTok divestiture law, officially known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, mandates that ByteDance must divest its ownership of TikTok by January 19, 2025, or face a nationwide ban.

The law contains no provision for extending or changing that deadline.

Trump has no authority to extend or change the deadline since that date was written directly into the law.

Note that the date is almost a year ago now....

This is the kind of attitude that has resulted in workers now taking home 60% of their share of productivity today vs. what they got in the '70s. If anyone figures out a counterbalance to ownership-class power other than collective worker action, let me know.

This is the second time parody metal band Psychostick has foretold the future of US politics, first with "Political bum" and then "Numbers" - complete with muppets!

They were probably most concerned with ensuring that it wouldn't question the primacy of supporting free markets:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/p...

Everything old is new again:

https://damagedglitter.com/pro...

I'd guess the device was one of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Let's wait for some precedent or at least a strong hint of inclination before we assume that future Dem presidents will also take the wannabe-dictator path from now on. While all future US presidents will have the opportunity to be mini-dictators until some much-needed guardrails are added, so far only one party (and in fact only one man) has taken it.

A Twitter-branded Mastodon instance might have a decent shot at success just due to the branding advantage, nothing since Twitter has been as well-known as Twitter.

If you parked the Venus zeppelin on Mars it wouldn't offer the inhabitants enough protection from the cold or radiation. But that's a minor issue next to the fact that it would explode due to the lower atmospheric pressure.

Times New Roman is not a Microsoft invention. It was commissioned by The Times in 1931 as an update to their former font Times Roman, also known as Times.

The update from Times Roman to Times New Roman was intended to address more modern printing techniques and aesthetics.

But neither Times Roman or Times New Roman has anything to do with Microsoft; it was all done decades before Bill Gates was born.

I guess you missed this part:

I guess I'm not seeing the problem here.

In a "standard" investigation the police might get an eyewitness account of a crime where the suspect is described in detail.

At what point do they need a warrant?

According to your logic, a warrant would be required before they knock on the eyewitness's door and ask if he's seen anything suspicious.

It might stop him from increasing the number of victims.

"I'm not crying over this news."

The relatives and victims of the killers/rapists/whatever who will now get away with their crimes will be the ones who do the crying.

I guess I'm a grumpy old codger, but I simply don't understand how people get sucked into stuff like that.

I buy what I need, and replace it when it breaks beyond repair. I try to get stuff of good quality, even when it costs a bit more, and I'll try to fix it if it quits. I'll buy "cheap junk" if it's something like a paint brush that I'm going to use once and throw out.

I don't know why schools don't teach financial literacy. Parents used to do that with their kids, starting with "Here's your allowance, this is what you get for the week". But now it seems the parents themselves don't have any understanding of money management either.